Asm. Mike Davis

This measure requests the United States government to restrict swordfish imports unless and until there is a process by which a nation seeking to export swordfish or swordfish products to the United States provides reasonable proof of the effects on marine mammals of the commercial fishing technology used to obtain the swordfish or swordfish products, and the National Marine Fisheries Service receives that proof and determines that the proof demonstrates that the swordfish or swordfish products to be imported were not caught with commercial fishing technology that results in the incidental kill or incidental serious injury of marine mammals in excess of United States standards.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.

Existing law authorizes the Counties of Los Angeles, Merced, Orange, and Stanislaus to participate in a pilot program to permit the electronic filing of statements of economic interests. Existing law authorizes the pilot program from January 1, 2009, to January 1, 2012, inclusive, for the reporting years of 2008 to 2011, inclusive, and requires a county participating in the pilot program to submit a report to the Fair Political Practices Commission containing specified information regarding the electronic filing process no later than July 1, 2011. The Fair Political Practices Commission is then required to transmit these reports to the Legislative Analyst's Office, which is required to provide a report evaluating the program to the Legislature no later than March 1, 2012. Existing law prohibits certain elected officials from participating in the pilot program, as prescribed. This bill would limit the reporting years included in the pilot program to 2008 to 2010, inclusive. This bill would also change the date on which the Legislative Analyst must report to the Legislature regarding the pilot program from March 1, 2012, to February 1, 2012. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.

Existing law, the violation of which is a crime, requires specified natural persons, corporations, and partnerships to register, in the county in which they reside or in which their principal place of business is located, a certificate of registration as a process server. Existing law also requires a registrant, upon initial filing, to submit to a fingerprint check to verify that the registrant has not been convicted of a felony, and specifies procedures for revoking or suspending a certificate of registration. This bill would require a registrant to submit to the fingerprint check also upon renewal of a lapsed certificate of registration. Because the bill would impose additional requirements on process servers, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States and the federal administration to work with the Governor and the Legislature of the State of California to, among other things, provide federal loan guarantees, flexibility with respect to certain programs, and certain funding levels for vital programs, as specified.

This measure would declare the week of June 29 through July 5, 2009, Yellow Ribbon Week to show support for military families and for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This measure would acknowledge the history of the Chinese in California, recognize the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and express regret for past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions which resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California.

This measure would proclaim the month of May 2009 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.

This measure would designate that January 19, 2009, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.